Romneys Righteous Turncoat Vote

great American Again the buck Sexton Show begins. CIA analysts had the state of the Union. As required by the Constitution of the United States, the President is to submit in writing or in person his statement of the State of the Union. What happened instead was the President using the Congress of the United States is a backdrop for reality show presenting a state of mind that had no contact with reality whatsoever. If there's somebody that has no

contact with reality, it's pretty clear it's Nancy Pelosi. Hey, he'll hear his press cafference today, Vling and you know the President and the Pageman, you know, really a bunch of blathers. Oh yeah, welcome to the buck Sexton Show. I was so excited to talk to you. In case you didn't know what show you were listening to, this

is in fact the Buck Sexton Show. Yeah, Speaker. Speaker Pelosi gave a press conference today in which she railed against Presidence President Trump's State of the Union, which if you look at the data or data if you like to go with soft a there, you see that not

only did Republicans overwhelming you think it was excellent. I thought it might have been the best speech of Trump's entire presidency, certainly one of the strongest knights, one of the strongest moments, a pinnacle of Trump's political power and the consolidation of the Republican Party behind him so far. But if you look at the polls, you'd see that Independence overwhelmingly thought it was also a really good speech. So Republicans and Independence, I think that speech was awesome,

Which means Nancy Pelosi only has one choice. She's got a fever, and the only prescription is more crazy, and that's what she decided to do. She gave this press conference today in which she attacked the President of This also is this is a personal feud. This is one area I have to say where Trump really excels. One of the special skills that this president has is he forces his opponents, or he I should say he induces,

not really he forced. He induces his opponents to show us the full extent of their duplicity, their dishonesty, their craziness. He gets them to come out of their dug in fighting position, so to speak, and show us who they

really are. And this has been a feature of Trump, and Trump is him now for years and so now as we look at what has gone on in the last few days, Nancy Pelosi has had to take preposterous lines, has had to say absurd things about this president because her party is in disrepair right now, disarray, but also it has become very personal between her and Trump. That is increasingly the storyline that is emerging. Trump doesn't like her, didn't shake her hand at this State of the Union.

She tore up his speech afterwards. And now you could say, oh, this is not befitting a presidency. Well, it's also not befitting a Speaker of the House. That you could get into all the decorum issues. But let's just understand this. They've been trying to destroy this president for years. They don't just want him to lose an election, folks. They want to send him to prison, They want to ruin his reputation, ruin his life, ruin his family's lives if they can. At what point is it just a normal

human emotion. At what point does he turn into Brett Kavanaugh with just a parade of lunatic liars coming forward to destroy him, and he just lets it out that he's mad and this is a sham and it's wrong. When is the president allowed to feel that way? When is the president allowed to say, you know what, I've had enough. I'm not doing this anymore. I'm not going to play nicey nice with Nancy Pelosi after this ridiculous

scam of an impeachment process. Enough's enough. But Pelosi recogn yes, I think she is savvy enough to understand that the momentum is all on President Trump's side right now, that President Trump is in fact the one who is looking like he will cruise to a reelection. You know, the Drudge Report today is saying a fifty nine point nine nine percent chance for reelection, I mean over sixty percent.

And that's before Trump has even really gotten going. That State of the Union address was just Trump cracking his knuckles before he really decides, Sir Walpus leaves and get into it for his reelection. And look at the Democrats are already running for the hills. They're they're frightened, They're oh my gosh, what are we gonna do? And so they're just scrambling. Special counsel didn't work. I mean, I I've got a piece going up on the Hill dot com. It's up on the Hill dot com. Rather that just

looks at how to understand impeachment. You have to see this as another failed Trump removable effort, because there have been so many of them. I mean, the two major ones have been the Russia collusion all alive by the way, Russia collusion, Special counsel that was meant to remove Trump, perhaps even with criminal charges. I remember at the very end they said, oh, well, we can't even charge the president. But that could have been a fight. They could have

said we would criminally charge him, but we didn't. You know, he should have been criminally charged. So as you look at what's really happened here, they've been rolling out all these different reasons to remove the President of the United States from office. Now, this impeachment over the Ukraine phone call. They brought up a twenty fifth amendment, They brought up the emolument's clause, the Stormy Daniels payoff using this disgraced lawyer,

Michael Cohen. These are all just it's a continued effort to prevent the one thing that terrifies Democrats more than Trump himself, and that is a free and fair election in twenty twenty that allows the American people to make the choice that they want this president to do this for another four years. If Trump has already psychologically broken many of the Democrats, and I think he has, what comes up next? What is the next step? I asked that, and it is rhetorical. I don't have an answer I

can offer up to you. Maybe they're just at full throttle crazy and they'll just keep their foot on the pedal and it doesn't change. I think that's the most likely outcome. They've already got the dial on the amplifier to eleven. It doesn't go any higher. This is spinal tap reference for some of you who may not catch that. But there's nothing beyond it. There's nothing more for them

to do. They've already every dirty trick, every narrative, every lie all the things that they've tried to do, and not only has it not worked, It's not like Trump is limping through a presidency that he's you know, his policies are ineffective, his vision has been stymied and wounded. An No, that's not the case at all. Trump is actually delivered incredibly well. I mean the Job's report that just came out this week, it's everything is going in

the right direction. You even have on the Drudge Report right now. And by the way, Drudge has not been all that pro Trump recently and last I don't know, maybe the last couple of years really, but nine according to Gallop, ninety percent of Americans are satisfied with their lives. This country is in a golden age right now. Other people won't tell you this. It's just so much easier all you know, the end is near. Oh, it's all gonna crash and burn. And yeah, we've got problems. Things

could change, I've got worries, I've got concerns. Bertie Sanders wins it's gonna change a lot. But Democrats have put themselves in a position where they feel they have no choice but to oppose what is good and prosperous and peaceful and happy for America. They have to pretend that's not really happening, because how can they achieve power when their opposition, when Donald Trump and the Republican Party are

doing a good job of governing. No, they want to turn the whole country into Los Angeles or San Francisco, or increasingly here in New York City, which is at a big spike in crime. I mean, they want to inflict the policies of socialism, identity politics, wokeism. They want to inflict all of that on us, they would say, for our own good or because it's the right thing to do. And the only way that they can achieve the power to do that is to pretend that what's

already being done by and large. Look, it's not perfect, I know that, but what's already being done by the government is pretty much on the right track, and the government is doing well. The government is doing its job. President Trump is succeeding. And there's no better example I can give you of how true this is now and how it's becoming inescapable, and now Democrats increasingly find themselves unable to have a counter narrative. You know, this is

the common between storms, they'll come up with something. I mean, I made a joke on Twitter. I didn't realize how funny people would find it that. Just give it a matter, Just give it a few days, and you'll have a story in the New York Times about some former senior aide to President Trump who thinks that the president has deteriorating mental health and is not of sound mind and should be removed. You guessed it with the twenty fifth amendment.

And then CNN will put some PhD from who knows what university and psychology on air, will say, oh, well, if you look at the way President Trump blinked twice in that last speech, I mean clearly he might have the early signs of dementia. And they'll do this. They'll do this because their audience has been conditioned to believe there's always an ongoing removal effort. They don't treat their audience like adults who can recognize we lost the twenty

sixteen election. That means this guy's president for four years. See what we can do in the next election. That's the adult responsible approach to American politics. Democrats have completely abandoned that as a party. They have no interest in that it's the forever removal campaign against Trump. Remove him now today, find a way, whatever you gotta do, get him out of office. And not only is that destroying the very institutions of government that they pretend to care

so much about, which we've discussed here many times. It's very true, but it also requires the negation of how successful Trump has been. And by the way, I don't think it's because Trump is some super genius. I just think he's not preconditioned. He's not brainwashed by the swamp and by the policy approach of the elites. He doesn't care when people say mean things about him. He just does what a normal person would think is probably the smart thing to do. Trump offers America a common sense

presidency term you don't hear that much anymore. It is a common sense presidency. And for many people across the country, including a lot of you know who listened to this show, you knew that was what was really on offer, and that's what we have seen, and that if that was allowed to happen, it would work out pretty well. You know, it's a good thing when you don't have people in charge who believe that they can give everybody free healthcare.

No one's taxes go up, everyone's medical attention and access will improve. And you know, we're all just going to be living in utopia. It's going to be you know, Xanadu, Shangri La Nirvana, different places of extreme happiness. You already knew that. But that's not the way the world works. So Trump looks at the way the world actually works. Notice how I haven't even talked about Pierre de Lecto yet. I will get to Monsieur Pierre de Lecto, Zimos famis

turn Cult of Ziania Republic Party. We'll get there. Oh, Pierre, We're coming for you. Pierre. We got a lot to say. But here's the real, the real kicker for me. Pelosi today in her press conference, because she's just trying to buy the Democrats sometime, trying to reset the narrative in some way. Pelosi was making the claim that this is the Obama economy. That's when you know they're just they're

up against the ropes. Man. I mean, you know, a couple more good shots from Trump and the Democrats are down for the twenty twenty count. It's the Obama We're in the fourth year of a Trump presidency, and it's the Obama economy. Really, that's that's the story that we're supposed to buy into. Now that Trump, who does things consistently that Democrats hate, say is terrible, say he's going to be bad for the economy. The economy is better than it has arguably better than it has ever been.

I mean, the country is certainly wealthier than it has ever been. And you ask yourself, Okay, what are Democrats going to say about this? Oh, now they're back to what they tried for the first eighteen months when Trump's when Trump's unemployment numbers looked really good, the stock market was doing really well, it's Obama's It's Obama's economy. Still he's the reason things are still going so well. Yeah.

That's a really compelling talking point, isn't it. But this is this is what you say when you have no answer. And that's what the Speaker of the House, the most powerful Democrat right now in elected office in the country. That's what she's telling the American people in response that state of saying that it was disconnected from reality. Nancy

Pelosi's disconnected from reality. And I wonder if Nancy's waking up with you know, with not a lot of energy and some headaches these days, Nancy looks like she is not up for this. If we're gonna talk about how Joe Biden looks like he's not up for this, I don't think Nancy looks like she's up for this either.

I don't know if it's just she's getting up there or if this is a little more self inflicted, but she looks like she could use some time off because what she was doing today in that press conference, it was just blather. It was actually a little embarrassing to watch. She's not embarrassed by it, of course, because whatever she thinks will help the Democrats. But that's where we are, folks.

Just remember that the economy is so amazing right now that the Democrat talking point has switched and they'll have to abandon this because they know it won't work. The Democrat talking point has switched to, well, you can thank Obama for this, Oh yeah, because Obama was such an economic and free market based genius. Right, you're in the freedom hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. The presiding officer directs judgment to be entered in accordance with

the judgment of the Senate as follows. The Senate, having tried Donald John Trump, President of the United States, upon two articles of impatient exhibited against him by the House of Representatives, and two thirds of the Senators present, not having found him guilty of the charges contained therein, It is therefore ordered and adjudged that the said Donald John Trump be and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles acquitted. The President of the United States,

Donald John Trump, acquitted forever. That is the verdict of the Senate. Democrats can say it's not a real acquittal, but we can just say it's not a real impeachment either. I mean, this is childish, right, this becomes this becomes stupid, this becomes something that's not even worth our time. But that's where they're going to go. They're going to just pretend that things they don't like don't exist, and the things they do like are much more important than they are.

That's where all of this is heading now. I wanted to focus in on this point for at first, because Democrats have failed in this scheme once again, another scheme to remove this president before the verdict of the American people through a free and fair election can be heard. But so now we have the verdict of a Senate trial. The verdict of the Senate trial is that President Trump is acquitted, not guilty. And there were very, very few surprises in this Senate trial. I also first want to

say Mitch McConnell, good job. They call Mitch McConnell the grim Reapers, as if that's going to make people think he's less less cool. I don't know if grim Reaper is better than cocaine Mitch, but I like both of them. Mitch McConnell held it together, held the line. You know what he started doing as soon as that sham Senate

trial was over, confirming more excellent constitutionalist judges. That's what Mitch McConnell went went back to doing right away, get that machinery rolling more and more judges so you can't have the hashtag resistance left wing judiciary. So that's a big win. Congrats to Mitch McConnell for not falling for the oh just or witnesses. He learned from the Cavanaugh Debaco. We should give credit to politicians who learn, especially when they're on our side. But then there's Pierre de Lecto.

Thanks for listening to the bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. You realize this is war. Donald Trump will never forgive you for us. There there's a hymn that is a sign in my church. It's an old Protestant hymn, which is to do what is right, let the consequence follow. I know in my heart that

I'm doing what's right. I understand there's going to be enormous consequence, and I don't have a choice in that regard. That's why, that's why I haven't been anxious to be in the position I'm in. When I heard there was going to be an impeachment investigation, as I heard the evidence it was coming forward, I dreaded the responsibility I'd have. But I was not willing to abvigate the responsibility given to me by the Constitution, nor to ignore my conscience

out of personal and political significance. I mean considerations. I mean I had to follow my conscience. Team, I'm going to try to make you a deal. Here. We're going to dive into Pierre de Lecto, also known as mit Romney. We're going to dive into this now and I'm going to hope that we don't really have to talk about mid Romney again for the rest of this election cycle, and maybe maybe not even enough to talk about him again for longer than that on this show, because he

doesn't deserve it. Let's just look at what happened here. There was an alignment among Republicans. Mitch McConnell had his caucus in line. Republicans knew this is an outrage. This whole impeachment is ridiculous. Even if everything the Democrats said was true, it's not enough to remove a president from off It's not even close. It's a traffic ticket for a president who cares. If everything they said was it was all based on supposition, on lies, on analysis that

normal people could never believe. Oh it was going there was no reason to investigate the Bidens lie. Oh it would have changed the election, and Trump was demanding this, and that's illicit lie. I wasn't going to change the election.

Hillary Clinton and her husband were running a global slush fund, taking millions and millions of dollars from the Soudias, from whomever he wanted to give a speech, I think in North Korea at one point as long as the money's good, but oh no, there was no corruption with the Clinton Foundation.

That Democrats are willing to pretend that they are total morons, even dumber than they actually are, in order to get away with believing things that we know they don't believe, but presenting facts in a way that is useful to them in the short term. So here's what Mitt Romney has done. Mitt Romney broke ranks with Republicans. Doesn't change anything. He voted to convict on abuse of power, not on obstruction of Congress, which I should note at least he's

not that dumb. Because Mitt Romney's not a dumb guy, we can't say he's not a dumb guy at all. He obviously understands understands how to be a rapacious capitalist and maybe destroy some companies to make himself very, very very rich in the process. Fine. Private equity can be a force for good and also can destroy small towns and put a lot of people on the unemployment line. That's the reality of it. I know a lot of people who worked in private equity. They will tell you

that behind closed doors. Yeah, sure, sometimes it's you know, creative destruction, and sometimes it's just destruction. But Mitt Romney decided that his conscience dictated that he would have to go along on the abuse of power charge and join the insane, power mad, deranged anti Trump Democrats in the Senate and give them the only, the only glimmer of a silver lining that they've had all week. I mean, Democrats have just been getting shellack right now. Trump's State

of the Union was huge. The Iowa caucuses, we'll talk more about. Still don't know who one, still don't know. Don't worry Iowa. It's cool, kick back, relax, come out to the coast, have a few laughs. Iowa doesn't have to rush right who at this point, who even cares who wins? They they they're already talking about New Hampshire.

We'll dig into it a little bit. It looks like Bernie Sanders probably is going to be the guy who wins in the end as I go on air here, But Buddha Judge is very close and some people said he was the winner, and you know it's not the winners Joe Biden. But we'll get there. We'll get there. So why did Mitt Romney do this? Let's really let's unpack this for a moment. It has no effect on the president whatsoever. It doesn't do anything. So it's a vote that's entirely for show. It's a show vote, so

mitt Romney can show vote. This was about moral preening, because otherwise I would want to know for example, I mean, let's really break this down. Why would mit Romney demand that he needed more witnesses, which was what we're hearing from him last week. Oh I need more witnesses. I need to see more witnesses. If you're a juror in a murder trial, which I know this is not a criminal trial, which is why this whole thing. Also, at the end of the day, it's just a political exercise.

It's entirely political, but it is in fact the definition of political. But if you're a juror in a murder trial, you don't say, you know, I really need to hear from a lot more witnesses and a lot more evidence. And then when you're told sorry, there are no more witnesses at evidence, you go, oh, well, I'm totally sure

this person's guilty. If you're totally sure they're guilty, why do you need more witnesses and evidence if you've already called if you can come to that conclusion with the evidence already presented, why would you demand to see more evidence? Wouldn't that be I mean, you'd think this is a pretty straightforward proposition. But Mitt Romney just wanted a lot

of attention here and he got it. And now I see a lot of people who are either never Trumpers or still they still cling to this this sense of highly, highly moral and often sanctimonious personal conservatism right that this is somehow a personal branding exercise for them. They're they're the good ones that even if they like some of Trump's policies, they think the Trump is a departure from the morality that is necessary for one to be a

real conservative. And they're praising Mitt Romney right now and saying, I don't we'll get to I mean the media, of course, is Mitt Romney's a profile and courage. He's amazing Pierre de Lecto. Let's remember something, folks. The Pierre de Lecto thing is not insignificant. Mit Romney, as an actual human being whose face we know and whose name we know, had over a million Twitter followers and was verified on Twitter.

That same guy created a sock puppet account on Twitter so that he could without consequence to himself talk about how great he was and take cheap shots at Trump in the random bowels of the Twitter Internet. This guy's worth two three million dollars, Okay, super rich. He's seventy some odd years old. He has a huge Twitter account, he has a huge public profile and following he creates a sock puppet account to pump himself up and to take cheap shots at the president. Who does that? I

really think about that from a who does that? Somebody who is vain and petty. Now Trump is thin skinned, and sometimes I think he gets too far deep into it with people on personal issues, and I wish he'd focused for him. But then again, Trump is also attacked by more people in more ways any human being I've ever seen in my life, almost all of it deeply unfair. And he's still producing for us, and he's still a fighter.

So at some point, you know, when do I have to say thank you for sleeping under the blanket of protection that he provides. Colonel Nathan are Jessup, United States Marine Corps, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, you know, at what point do we have to say thank you President Trump for dealing with all of this crap from these lunatics, And yeah, you're not perfect, but you're dealing with a highly imperfect situation. You know, Trump is a wartime conservative, and yes, sometimes

there's mistakes that are going to happen. Sometimes he's gonna go too far, but he's also fighting the battle for us. Mid Romney's a turncoat. I mean he is. That's he just this was his opportunity forever in his own mind, to pull a McCain and be the one who's above politics. You'd say, why would someone do this? Well, why would someone be so petty and vain in the position? And the mit Romney's in is to create a sock puppet account. And oh, by the way, and you can go back.

I don't know how much you want to dig into his background in politics and the way that he flip flops on major issues, the way that he was abortion should be legal and safe when he was in Massachusetts. I mean, he was practically more pro abortion than Ted Kennedy when he was a governor. You look at the way that he's flip flopped on all these different issues and you start to see that maybe this guy's just just an absolutely rank opportunist in his political life. But

I'm more interested here in the personal. So Mit Romney was a huge opponent of Trump's in the twenty sixteen election cycle, said that he was essentially a fraud and a liar and wasn't a success and all this other stuff. And you might at some point want to ask, well, if that's the way he feels, why would Pierre delecto bonjeu monsieur. Why would Pierre go and bend the knee and ask Trump to make him not just some random

job in the administration secretary of state. And I see the os pure, the OsO pure hall monitor conservatives out there, some of them are saying, oh, because he wanted to be in between a reckless president and his foreign policy, and that he wanted to serve his country even under difficult circumstances. Of Donald Trump is commander in chief. Donald Trump is better at foreign policy than Bush or Obama. I would argue that against anyone. I would win that

argument against anyone. He is better at this again common sense. I'm not. It's not that he's some genius. I don't think that he could easily, you know, name a dozen countries in Asia off the top of his head, like I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that when there are choices, when their decisions and the executive level that have to be made, this is a guy who gets it.

The results are what matters. And then Romney comes from that school of where I went to Harvard and I worked at pain and I'm so fancy and I'm so smart. How could this guy be doing better than me? I mean, it's deeply personal for mid Romney. It's not about fealty to the Constitution. It's not about, oh, this is what's required of my dignity and my honor as a member of the Senate and as an American, all this stuff. I mean, I heard a speech yesterday. It was just pathetic.

It really was. It was pathetic. No, Mit Romney is vengeful toward Trump because Trump represents a challenge to Mitt Romney's sense of who he is, which is midst the guy who leverages all the leverages, all the right institutions, has the right resume. Mit is the elite. He is the establishment. And you'd say, oh, buck, but Trump's abilionaire and he's so famous for something else. Yeah, but he won't play by elite establishment rules. He doesn't march to

their tune. He doesn't do what they say, and that's not allowed. If anything, you can say that Trump has turned his back on the elites that were sucking up to him for so long because of his money and influence that mid Romney now has to do well. This guy was able to do what Mitt wasn't, which was when a presidential election and implement a lot of conservative policies, be fantastic with the judges he's put in place, preside over a booming act. The American people are getting spoilt.

The Trump economy is so good. I mean, this is my concern, is that we forget what it's like to be in the midst of like a slow Obama recovery and be told, sorry, is the best it's going to get. Get used to it, you know, move to Sweden if you don't like it so much. Okay. Mitt Romney will forever be remembered for what he did yesterday. And what he did yesterday was just show us all that we should maintain a degree of humility in our own politics.

We should always remember that we have the capacity to be wrong. I thought Mit Romney, based on everything that I could see and everything that I knew in the twenty twelve election. I thought Mitt Romney he seemed like a good guy, a good man. He did a great job in the first debate against President Obama, absolutely annihilated. I mean, if debates mattered and the media wasn't in

Obama's pocket, that would have moved the needle. But then, of course, Candy Crowley physically, you know, stood in front of and did everything possible to help Obama in that second debate on that critical moment about Benghazi, because he and n's an unbiased news organization, and as we know, he lost, and he lost badly in twenty twelve. It wasn't even close. But I thought Mitt Romney was an honorable guy. And so in that I'm reminded that when

you don't know someone, you don't know them. And a lot of us were, if not fooled by him, certainly misled. But it's tough when you're evaluating someone from Afar and you're also trying to pick them for a job, which is all we're doing. We elect politicians, we're not electing heroes. We elect people to let us on matters of policy, using the mechanisms of government that are in place. We do not put people in power and then just say, oh, wise, King,

tell us what's next. And there's a reason for that, because we, as conservatives and as Americans. But let's start with conservatives should always be deeply skeptical of politicians, all of them. That's why I try to maintain some skepticism even of Trump, despite all his incredible successes so far

in office. What am I going to be saying to you if the market absolutely tanks, unemployment triples, Trump starts a war, an unnecessary war where they're run, I'm going to tell you this is It's bad, it's a disaster, and we need to rethink a lot. I don't think anything that's going to happen, but I'm just saying we have to base our assessments on reality and have to maintain a healthy skepticism of all politicians. That's what holding

them accountable would actually be. Holding accountable isn't saying everything someone does is amazing and perfect. I mean, this is why I tell you Republicans Trump, there's an nepotism problem here. There is. It's one that we're going to have to live with for a very long time politically, and it's one that I do not like and I cannot support. But okay, does that mean that I don't celebrate the ninety five policy that I think is correct and that I agree with. Of course not. It's great. We have

to maintain that honesty. You have to maintain that integrity. Mitt Romney's integrity is he's very much a comiist. Actually, I think, you know, maybe you could say Comey is a Romneyist, but I think Romney is a comiust, which is that his entire identity is wrapped up in being better than on him, more virtuous than more virtuous than the others, whatever that means. I'm so deeply virtuous. Ah. That's why he went and asked for Trump's endorsement when

he's running for Senate in Utah. That's why he bent the knee and said, make me your secretary of State. That's why he created some pathetic Twitter account to snipe at people online. It was utterly bizarre. And that's why this is a guy who changes what it means to have principles every other day depending on what's best for Mitt Romney. Just like James Comey, these guys really come and Romney should become best friends. They would get along

in a lot of ways. They both exude about the same amount of personal warmth and charm, and they both have shown their true colors to the country by inserting themselves in a national drama in a way that was all about them, while pretending that there was about everything other than them. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is

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iHeart app. But nothing changes for this show. Thanks for listening to the Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeart radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Evil. It was erupt, it was dirty cups, it was leakers and liars, and this should never ever happen to another president. Ever. I don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it. Some people

said no, they wouldn't have. But I can tell you, at a minimum, you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly, no matter who you have with you, he can get away very quickly. It was a disgrace. Had I not fired James Comey, who was a disaster. By the way, it's possible I wouldn't even be standing here right now. We caught him in

the act. Dirty cups, bad people. If this happened to President Obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already, many many years calling out Trump. Don't be shy, not that he ever is. He's absolutely correct here. He absolutely has the right idea. Speak truth about the dishonesty of Democrats. Let the American people know what you've been through. Let the American people know that it's very clear that the Democratic Party has been engaged in a series of soft coup attempts to

undo the twenty sixteen election. And it's getting more and more desperate because they realize that unless something big changes, they're heading for a whole lot of heartache in the twenty twenty election. Two. And they can try that the old Russia Russia, Russia playbook, But normal, well adjusted adults will just be like, maybe Trump won because he won because he's better at this than you guys are. President's right to be outraged by this impeach for what asking

a foreign head of state about the Bidens. Joe Biden is a third rate politician and a fifth rate intellectual, and we're supposed to care so much about his wayward idiot son getting some attention from the President of the United States after he got over a million dollars paid to him to be on the board of a company we all know he never should have been on, I mean,

the Democrat media school. Why would why would anyone have any questions about Hunter Biden, the crackhead who impregnated the stripper, then a lot about her, refused to pay per eternity, and currently it's just gotten remarried and maybe gonna actually face some child supporting now because people saw him driving around brown new Porsche. That guy. Why would anyone? Why would anyone have any questions? I don't know, Gee, gosh crazy, huh Hunter Bidens? This guy's squared aways. You know. Hunter

Biden's like a really sharp guy. He got the job because he's so smart. I don't think so. I don't think people believe that. The media though, is no one's ever found any no one's ever found any wrong doing? Oh really? Or do we do adj investigation of that? Because there's a whole lot more smoke there than there was about Russia Trump collusion, Star Wars, this, star War, this, my friends, for which of these investigations have we now

found there is a greater legitimate basis? The President of the United States and his campaign worked with the Russians to hack into email and release them as part of some international scheme to throw the election to the Trump campaign. That's Russia Trump collusion. Or the son of the Vice president of the United States is getting paid eighty thousand dollars plus a month for a no show job to be on the board of a company that's so corrupt

it's ridiculous. And his father was running foreign policy in that country at the time for the United States when the country Ukraine desperately needed that US help and aid. And oh, by the way, that vice president also had a habit of telling them who to fire from the prosecutor's office, very hands on which one of those things is there more legitimate basis for investigation on? I'm just wondering. We all know the answer. Oh my gosh. Trump, look

what he did. He asked a question about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden meddling in the election. Meddling the election. You know who meddles an elections. Fairly Democrats. What's up, Iowa. We'll get to it. We got some additional news about that, but Trump also called out Pelosi for her ridiculous comments. This mor I mean, I'm you know, the problem is you run out of words after a while talking about Democrats insane, unhinged, lunatic, ridiculous. I mean, these are not

normal thought processes that they are going through. This is not what we should expect from normal, well adjusted people. But but hold on it. Let's go to what the president. He just spoke before before we came on, and here's what he had to say about Pelosi's claim that the economy right now you're four of Trump's presidency is the Obama economy. Please play it. We've done more than any administration in the first few years. You look at all

of the things we've done. I watched this morning as they tried to take credit for the stock market from think of that. Let me tell you, if we didn't win, the stock market would have crashed. And the market was going up a lot before the election because it was looking like we had a good chance to win, and then went up tremendously from the time we won the election till the time we took office, which was November eighth to January twentieth, and that's our credit. That's all

our credit. And leading up to that point was our credit because there was hope. And one of the reasons the stock market's gone up so much in the last few days is people think we're doing so well. They liked the State of the Union speech. That's right. It was a state of the Union speech that gave a

lot of people confidence and hope. And I mean it was still one of them, one of the most incredible presidential spectacles, and it was a spectacle, but one of the most impressive ones I've ever seen, and I've watched a lot of them over the years. I've watched far too many of them, really, and very very few of them, as I've told you, are even a little bit memorable.

But the only the only downside of this week really so far has been Pierre de Lecto's defection, which I think we should count the days until he just becomes a Democrat. More and more people who claim to be the true conservatives. This is now, but this is the end stage of the never Trump disease that the final days of never Trump is um are you know, it's it's it's shortness of breath and becoming a Democrat. That's what ends up happening when you when you've reached the

terminus of Trump's arrangement syndrome. It's I'm now actually a member of the Democratic Party. I want Democrats to win. That's how conservative. That's how much I'm the real Republican. Bill Crystal former or what editor in chief of the Weekly Standard, right yep, voting for voting for Democrats, wants Democrats to win, says he's a Democrat now. Oh that

that's how much he loves conservatism. Tom Nichols somebody that I don't even know how many you've heard of, but runs around telling everybody what an expert is expert he is, and how much he loves experts. I don't really know what he thinks he has expertise in other than talking about that. But he is also now a Democrat. You know, you have others as well, Republicans who you know, Evan, Evan McMuffin. He's also a Democrat now effectively, I mean

wants Democrats to win. So this is this is why the the Pierre de Lecto position on this is so interesting. Pierre de Lecto is somebody who is holding himself up as a matter of principle. I mean, he's taking the position here that he only took this vote, which, by the way, is going to have electoral consequences. This is not enough vote. It's nothing vote in terms of what it does to Trump, but it might it could cost

Republicans control the Senate. My friends. You know, it's going to put pressure on some different races on the Republican side. It's gonna relieve pressure on some Democrats. It meant that Cinema and Mansion who were wavering could go forward, you know, because if he even Romney votes for this, if even a Republican does well, then it gives them cover. You know. Colin said that she was voting for acquittal. Good for her,

give her credit. She had to sort of that's the waters a little bit, but she did the right thing. In the end. It's only Republicans that have people from

their own team who just who just bail. It's only Republicans that we find out eventually are fakes, are frauds, are people who cannot who should not have been trusted in any respect ever, And That's why when I look at what mid Romney did here, and I look at the way that he's setting this whole thing up, Let's be very clear, he claims to be the one that is so honest and good. I mean, Mitt's vote is something that was meant to be an inspiration according to Oh,

we've got some of them talking about this. Could you play MSNBC getting all all excited about mid Romney eight And this was a moment that people who've known Mitt Romney for a long time have always thought he was capable of. But we haven't always seen right. Nobody's won big money betting on Mitt Romney to take big, bold public stands away from his own political self interest. That's not been something that he has done throughout the course

of his career. But as long as I've known him and covered him and known his family, it thought has been that he's just a good, decent person deep down inside. And I had thought from the minute that the senators took the oath, and watching the senators take the oath, that swearing an oath before God for Mitt Romney is like unlocking his superpower. I mean, there's no one in that chamber who was going to take that oath more seriously and more personally. Oh spare me, Really, that's not

the only that's not the only sound. We have so many we could play. Here's Elizabeth Warren also acent honorable beefcake Bit Romney is Tony. I want to get your reaction to what Senator Romney had to say today. He's the former governor of your state of Massachusetts. What was it like listening to that one Republican stand up and see this case basically the same way you do. I thought I was listening to a decent and honorable man who stood up and did the right thing. Oge, What

a surprise. Democrat politicians like what mid Romney did. The media likes woodmid Romney did. He bailed the Democrats out from having just a disaster of a week politically. So that's the only thing that he really accomplished. And he may end up hurting you know, you had. What was it, well, Doug Jones, I think he was gonna he was going to vote to convict either way. Don't forget how important it is to someone like mitt Romney that the elites respect him at least a little bit. I mean, they

never really respect him. The problem with turning on fellow Republicans in the desperate hunt for a personal legacy and some some just little smidgeon of approval from the media and the Democrats is that they use you, they quickly discard you, and then when all's said and done, they still think you're awful and think you're a turncoat and a traitor. MIT's gonna learn this. He's gonna learn this

the hard way. But right now he thinks he probably is going to be invited to fancy university functions and he's going to be somebody who's acceptable and polite society. But the question that I would need some of these people who are not forget about the left. I mean, that's it's just purely transactional for them. Mit did them

a favor. So they're gonna say he's honorable and great, and next week they're gonna go back to saying he gives old people cancer, he pushes Graham off the cliff, he abuses dogs, he was a bully in high school, he puts women in binders, whatever the heck that's supposed to mean. They're gonna go right back to that, but for a couple of days now, because it's useful to them. Mit Romney will be the great and honorable man. But I would want the MIT defenders, supposedly on the right

to answer this for me. If MIT cares so much about conservatism and the Constitution, American prosperity, protecting the unborn, securing our borders, if he cares about those things, why is it that when it really counts, he's willing to backstab the most effective defender of all those things and hand the lunatic Democrats socialists a win in the process. Why how could he claim to care about those things and do this thing? Er delecto is a very shady character.

You'll never know how he will turn out on the seeing, eh, Monsieur Pierre. It tells you one seeing he does the other. He's so honorable, so brave, except he betrays he's on side, and then curls, he's whis girls and says malthe MIT changes nothing other than really our opinion of MIT, and that's never going to change. And I will say this, Chris Wallace was right as far as Trump's concerned. It is war. That's that's not going to change either. You're

in the freedom heart. This is the buck Sexton Show podcast. She's playing hardball, like he does. Say, you know, when they go low, we go lower. That's what that's the only thing, that's the only thing that works with these criminals and fascists who are running the country right now. Sorry, but that's what works. When they go low, we go lower. At least she's correct. You know, when Joy Behar gets the answer to the test, right, I'll say so, And

that is the Democrat approach. There's there's no there is no seller, there's no basement, there's no bottom floor of how low they were they are willing to go in

their efforts to destroy this president. And instead they offer you the usual, the usual pretense of they're so honorable and decent and good and Trump is such a bad bad men, you know, the Democrats that they If you're somebody that thought that Trump's snub of Pelosi not shaking her hand was some egregious violation of governmental norms or or presidential duties or whatever, and then you thought that Pelosi ripping up the speech was like really cool and yes, queen,

and the whole thing. You should really think long and hard about why you have no principles or why you don't understand even what a principle is. Then again, there's always Chuck Schumer speaking of no principles, telling us things that we know to be untrue, but that Chuck or doesn't care how untrue they are. Here he is on his colleague Mitch McConnell, who we should all be giving a round of applause to, because Mitch, there were a lot I knew conservatives. I knew some well known conservatives.

You know, let's have more witnesses. Like, they didn't learn anything from Kavanaugh. They didn't learn anything. They just want to extend the clock to try dirty to try more dirty tricks. Why allow them to do that? If the whole process is tainted, why not just stop it when you can stop it? You know, there are there are principles in our judicial system. For example, you know, if you don't have a warrant and you run into somebody's house and you find evidence of a crime at day,

you know you find the murder weapon. Even though they call this the fruit of the poison tree doctrine, even though you might be able to prove this guy as the murderer, guess what you violated norms and processes to get there. Those are important things. You violated someone's rights. You can't violate someone's rights and then convict them based upon that violation. The entirety of the Democrats impeachment and removal scam was effectively a fruit of the poison tree

operation with the whistleblower. That whole thing, we never got to find out anything about that right, never get to find out we're Initially Schiff was saying we're gonna hear testimony from them, but then they would have asked him questions under oath, like so you and Shiff, you guys coordinated this right, and we would have found out that Schiff, who still claims he doesn't know who the whistleblower is.

If you have any questions about what a dishonest, lying hack Adam Schiff is, he he looks the American people in the eyes, says, well, I don't know who the whistle blower is. I have no idea right. So many of the Democrats arguments are premised upon us all just being really stupid. Apparently maybe it's because they don't have better arguments to make, but I think there's also a tremendous amount of condescension that comes to them They must

really think we are quite stupid. They must really believe that. Here's Schumer, by the way, on Dolory, play McConnell and Schumer five, no, please play this has and I believe the people will realize that this was one of the largest cover ups in the history of our nation. I believe the American people will know who stood in the way of truth, who were afraid of the facts, who covered up, And make no mistake about it, the drip drip drip of evidence is going to keep coming out

with each new revelation. Republicans are going to have to answer for their votes. They chose to turn their back on the American people and stand for a cover up. They chose to use ad hominem attacks and finger pointing. Leader McConnell couldn't even say bring himself to say what the president did was wrong when you asked him a few minutes ago. That's astounding. Maybe he believes what Dershowitz believes the president can do. This president can do anything

he wants. No, just acquittal. Just say with me, say with me, Schumer, acquittal, it's over. Thanks for listening to the Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, let's talk about risk. We absolutely must defeat Donald Trump. It's not about President Trump. This is Vice President Joe

Biden going after you. Yeah, And I've got to say that I think we've begun to demonstrate on Monday, coming in first in the Iowa caucuses, my ability to put together the coalition that it's going to take to defeat Donald Trump, getting urban, rural, and suburban voters together, and by the way, reaching out not only to fellow Democrats, but independence and even some people leaving the Republican Party. And as to the achievements of the Obama administration, I

have enormous regard for those achievements. I mean, if you look at what President Obama was able to do with two terms, it's extraordinary. And I had his back during that period, even as a mayor in Indiana where it wasn't always easy to step forward and back up the president. But I think the volk of the credit for the

achievements of the Obama administration belong with President Obama. Buddha Judge wants the Biden slot, and he's starting to make some gains there, Biden had a disastrous Iowa seventeen percent I think was the number. I mean, something really really weak. What I've I've been telling you all along, Biden's a third rate politician and a fifth rate mind. So not impressive, has never been impressive, will never be impressive. Just got really was right place, right time with Obama, right place,

right time. That's all. That's all it really came down to. And that then brings me to Well, first, I do think that that Buddha Judge has been able to shift. He's been able to pivot and go from the smarter, the smarter, better rouric with a better resume, to perhaps the young he is articulate, he is intelligent, the young, articulate, intelligent establishment democrat candidate that they can rally behind. He sees a lane. Folks, you know that we talk about

how things will shift. Buddha Judge now sees his lane is saying, Okay, old man, Biden, You're done. This is gonna be my lane now. That's what he's hoping for. And who knows what will happen in New Hampshire, where I think Biden has just taken the day off today. Remember Biden also hasn't been dragged into all this you know, senate trial nonsense. So he's been able to be in He was able to be in Iowa for a long time doing a lot of a lot of work, a lot of ground and a lot of ground and ground

game stuff. And that then brings me to the Iowa situation, which I just have to laugh now. I mean, this is it's it's so ridiculous. Are the Democrats. It's such a debacle. And I sit here and I can tell you we don't we don't really know who won. I mean, we think it's probably Bernie. And Bernie also had a twenty five million dollar campaign campaign donation hall for the month, for the last month. That's more than his opponents had, I believe in the previous quarter. So there is Bernie

momentum right now. It's a real thing. And that then brings us to, well, what the heck happened in Iowa? Did Bernie winn? Or did Buddha Judge win? It's one of the two. And this has gotten so out of control that here's the story from CNN. Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez called for a re canvas of all results in Iowa on Thursday, as the state's Democratic Party continues to struggle to verify the data from Monday night's caucuses.

The move is a significant step and raises further questions about how long the results of the Key Iowa coxes will remain outstanding. In a re canvas, all the numbers that were released by the state party would be checked against the results that we're recorded at caucus sites. Now, some of you probably aren't really paying all that much attention to this at this point because we're already focusing more on New Hampshire. And I think there's a mark.

Isn't there like a Democrat debate on Friday? Is it right? Yeah, they're doing debate, debate on Friday. I don't know why. That just strikes me. Debate is like homework for all of us, right, I mean nobody really, No One's like, oh, it's Friday night and the mood is right, let's watch the debate TGIF. I used to watch that. Do you ever watch You know you're too young that I've known what TGIF is. It was on Friday's I forgetting what

channel was on. But they would have Full House and then Family Matters, and then sometimes it was perfect Strangers. Then they moved to the show Dinosaurs. That was kind of a weird show. Watch that's the thing that they kept going. Yeah, which I loved Full House and Family Matter. I love Family Matters. Miracle guy I was. It wasn't just are just all the whole, but Oracle is a memorable one. Yeah, of course, and the show is kind of Bill it's around her. Yes, Jalil White was his name.

I watched the show so many times that actually remember some of the names of the various cast members. You would do that more the Full House because they actually went on to stuff. Well that's that's true. Well you know that the dad is the no no, no, no no, not the dad and the dad he's from Diehart And that was when he first played this role of a of a police officer, Reginald Van Johnson something like that.

You yes, yeah, yeah, he managed it and that was a really I thought that was a really good show. He made a cameo in Brooklyn nine nine because the main character and whoever Andy Sandberg plays is obsessed with Diehard. I'm also, I mean, I'm obsessed with Diehard too, so I gotta give Andy Samberg credit on that. I also think It's funny that the character of that Bronson pin shot or pin show, I don't know how you say it plays, you know what he plays in the Beverly

Hills cop movie. He plays Serge who wants to make a cappuccino with a lemon fist and then he That was really the basis for the character. Belk Belky bartakamis in the show Perfect Strangers, which I watch many, many, many times. I've never seen that. You've never seen Perfect Strangers? Oh man, It's it's like he's a he's kind of a country country bumpkin immigrant from Greece and uh, you know he does like the dens of Joy and talks about milking goats, and he lives in Chicago with like

his kind of curmudgeonly producer Mark Um. He has his own producer, Mark lives with him, so that's their roommates. Yeah, must be terrible to live with someone like me. I mean, one day, one day we gotta get missus Mark to call out of the show and just tell us, you know, what's going on in in Mark world? You know, for real, like what what the what? Mark? Behind the scenes is really like what I'm angry about today? Yeah, something like that,

the penalty box as it were. But I watched t G I have like the show back back to Iowa, the debacle that is Iowa. We we don't know what the results are going to be. We don't know where this is going. All we know at this point is that, Wow, this is the best. This is the best the Democratic Party can manage under these circumstances. That is that is pretty astonishing. Maybe a few lessons from this. Why have an app for this? They're already this is not one

even really seemed to think about this. There already are apps out there that can that can log and count and do all this, and they're you know, tried and true. Why create a new app for the iomacocause you know there's they've done some studies. I mean, I think I have probably fifty apps on my phone and I use like ten of them. Maybe even I'm more than that, Maybe it's closer to one hundred now and I use like ten of them. Of course, he's the iHeart Radio app.

Fantastic place. Listen to Bucks Acton Show on wr Monday six to seven pm Eastern, as well as the Bucksacton Show every day six and nine Eastern national syndication across the country. So I guess we actually will technically be on a just producer mark are We're gonna be on the iHeart app at the same time in two places? Is that how that's going to work? Yeah, with two different shows, right, with two different shows. Yeah, and the podcast is at like four hours earlier than that, so

just listen to that. Yeah, we had a lot of options. We we just we just go where the audience wants us to be. That's how we roll here, Buck sex and all the time. Bucks at twenty four seven Buck, that's the that's the new way to do it. So

where was I? Oh, yes, there is this reality of they don't know what the heck is going on in Iowa and where days past this this is it's a bad look for the Democrats, especially because they're supposed to be the competent administrators, at least in their own minds. They're making all these promises about how if they have more power once they're in power, if they have even more ability to do what they want to do, it'll all just go so very very well for the country.

Because they're basically very stable geniuses themselves, and this shows us that they have lots of work to do on that front. And it also I think as a reminder to many of us that you just don't want the government in charge of stuff. It shouldn't be. You know, if you want the government in charge of the absolute minimum necessary to have a government do the functions that are constitutionally prescribed, that's I mean, that's what you want

in place. You want the absolute bare mimnium. Because government is not good at things. And I worked in the government, I know something about this. The government is not good at most things. So that's what I take from im. And then also that Joe Biden dramatically underperformed and everyone looks at this now and says, wow, maybe Biden does

have a glass jaw, so to speak. Maybe Biden is not the front runner that so many were saying he was, And that the rest of us who just watched politics politics all the time are saying, the Democrats have got to be kidding, right they they really think that Joe Biden is going to beat Donald Trump. I don't think so. You're in the Freedom hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Miss Hutchinson. I also want to think thank you about bringing up the poverty draft and this idea

of a bootstrap. You know, this idea and this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a joke because it's a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces. It's physically impossible. The whole thing is a joke. And yet aoc herself was, as she has described, a bartender who went on to become a congresswoman before the age of thirty, isn't that and didn't come from a lot of money, didn't come from a lot of privilege.

May have benefited in the college application process, I don't know, may have benefited from the emphasis on diversity and applications, which is one of those areas of American society where we're all supposed to accept that that's the way that this is going to be. We're all supposed to say that a firmative action is a good and moral thing, but we're not allowed to talk about it. And if we talk about it, it makes people uncomfortable. It makes

people uncomfortable. We have to shut up. Oh, okay, it's such a good thing that no one's allowed to really discuss it. That's good to know, but she resents the idea that what she did, which is pretty remarkable. I mean, you have somebody who is an ignoramus who is now one of the most famous politicians in the country as

a massive social media following. She resents the idea that conservatives are constantly trying to reinforce across the country to people of all races, all ethnicities, all background all backgrounds,

that you two can do this. She doesn't like that model because it's much better to create a culture or victimization, to perpetuate that mentality and to allow people to blame all of their problems on external factors and not present them with the empowerment and the responsibility the accountability necessary to make better choices in one's own life and then

benefit from those choices going forward. No. AOC represents an ideology that tells you just give more authority, give more power to the government, and the government will take care of this. The government will take care of your healthcare, the government will take care of your schooling, of your housing or whatever, of your food. It's like we learned

nothing from the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's like we've learned nothing from Venezuela and these other and when they bring up places like Norway and sweet Norway is a very small, homogeneous country with massive oil reserves that essentially pays for the welfare state. Okay, I mean, so is that is our plan to try to replicate that

because we're very different. We're bigger than that, We're much more diverse than that, and we while we are the global oil and gas superpower, although the Democrats want to put a stop to that, we don't have a small population that can just have its schooling and its welfare programs paid for just off of fossil fuel revenue. Sweden is not really a socialist country. It is a high tax Asian country with a very large welfare state, which

you could argue is a form of socialism. But then you also want to ask yourself, do we do we really? Do you really want to you want to live in Sweden? You think about that for a moment, You know, did you really want to elect Bernie Sanders, who I think it would be best off as the mayor of Stockholm? You really want that to happen? And by the way, what he's proposing in many ways is more radical than what you have in some of those countries, the programs

that he's advocating for. You know, there's this story that didn't get nearly enough attention, and it was written by the Washington Post. Actually, because I think the Post is not a Bernie. I don't think the Post is pro Sanders. The Post is an establishment Oregan and they're more on the Biden Warren camp I did, but do we see who they? Who they? You know, endorsed. They haven't endorsed anyone yet, right, I don't believe anyone but the Times

has yet. Yeah, the Times hasn't. The Des Moines Register, right, well, I mean the National No, no, there needs The New York Times endorsed Warren and closed the New yor right, the New York Times. Yeah, but the Washington Post hasn't. I don't think that no one cares about their endorsements anyway.

It's all crap. But there was a story about how Bernie Sanders is planning all of these executive orders when he becomes president, including declaring a climate emergency and just usurping the legislative process and banning the export of crude oil, banning it. That's how dumb, that's how crazy these libs really are now they look at things that have been

incredibly beneficial for this country. They look at things that have been working remarkably well, that have resulted in explosions of wealth and prosperity, and they say, let's stop that thing because of a fairy tale we keep telling each other one that is ultimately rooted in the need for a greater government control. Well, that is ultimately a function of the Democrats desire for more control over every aspect of your life. Green New Deal, they call it. That's

that's quite a quite a euphemism. It's a it's a terrible idea, as we all know, and yet here we are still having to deal with people think it's a good idea. By the way, AOC also spoke about Russia. Limball is a very touching moment where he got the Medal of Freedom. Here is what the leader of the Democrat progressive side of the Aisle had to say, Play ten. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an extraordinarily sacred award.

We're talking about putting someone on the same level as Rosa Parks, you know, for example, in terms of their contributions to American progress. Russia. Limball is a violent racist, but even just on top of that, to do it in the middle of a State of the Union and not even dignify it with its own ceremony as it has. There's all sorts of norms that are being violated, not just for people's humanity, but also it truly just cheapens the value of it. Also, him pretending to be surprised

was such a joke. This has been news all day. There have been multiple reports for multiple multiple news outlets saying that Rush Limbaugh was going to receive the Medal of Freedom and then Trump announced it and he had to, like, you know, pretend that this was some kind of Oprah momentum was so disingenuous. She's a moron, and Rush didn't know about this. And I know for a fact that Rush did not know about this. I've been told by people who would know. Sleeves bang, and yes, you're referring

to AOC. Yeah, any more credit the vet. Yeah. And she also when she's talking about who's received the Medal of Freedom, she's leaving off, Oh, I don't know, such amazing luminaries like Tom Brokaw received the Medal of Freedom. Give me a break. Okay, that's you know, when we're talking about random lib journalists are getting this thing. I don't think we really need to hear about how oh it's it's mother Teresa. Okay, Yeah, a lot of people

get the Medal of Freedom. Rush Lumba absolutely deserve the Medal of Freedom, and AOC is an imbecile. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's the ugliest major building you've ever seen? I don't you really think about this for a second. What is the building that you can think of that is the thing that looks like it's straight out of

the coldest, darkest days of the Soviet Union. Because there's plenty of them around us in this country too, and there's a reason for that. If you think about the ugliest buildings you've ever seen, you may think of, oh, I don't know, the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, d C. If you've ever been there, or the FBI building in DC, the Hoover Building. I worked for a while at the NYPD Intelligence Division, and you'd go to a place here called one PP one Police Plaza.

The main headquarters of the NYPD, and I used to joke that every time I went in there, I was worried that they were going to take me into a basement and start putting electrodes on me because it looked like the headquarters of the KGB. The KGB wait, it's fun, No one. If you ever seen knock knock, who's there the KGB and then slaps them the face, the KGB waits fun, No one, that's from the office. I always

liked that one. But I've got the KGB in my mind because I think The Americans is such a good show. Why am I telling you about ugg buildings? Because President Trump wants to do something about it. There's a draft executive order. I think this is pretty interesting, folks, I

really do. There's a draft executive order that would start to push the federal government in any new construction and new buildings away from modern designs that there would be essentially a more uniform esthetic code architecturally speaking, for the federal government, or effectively, you would have a neo classical uniformity to federal government buildings, things like the White House,

the Congress right, the Capitol Building. I mean, that's everything should look a little bit more like that and a little bit less like the Hoover Building, which if you've ever been in it, and I have, if you've ever gone to some of these places, you know the DJ for example, still has some neo classical the facade, I mean, there are some of The Treasury Building is beautiful right next to the White House. But this all comes from a movement in architecture that we know as brutalism, and

it stretches back to we mentioned Sweden before. It stretches back to Sweden. I believe it was called knee brutalism, and it was a reference to a really ugly cinder block looking cement house that an architect in Sweden referred to as as knee brutalism. And then brutalism just became the way we described it. And this became an architectural fad among or style among architects starting around the fifties into the sixties. The Brits picked it up. And now

you might say, well, where did they find this from? Well, it really also was always influenced by the most functional, cold, lumpy, austere buildings of the Soviet Block. The Soviet Union didn't build big ugly cinder boxes, cinder block boxes, rather because they thought it looked so cool. They built them because they were easy, they were functional, and they didn't have a sense of style, panash, a sense of elevation through

consc instruction. It was all just we will make you'll douce building because it will keep the rain off your head and keep you from freezing maybe in winter. That was it. I remember when I went to Prague for the first time. I think it's about thirteen years old, and on the way into the city, you know, pretty old city in Prague, that the Charles Bridge. It's just

it's beautiful. I mean the Prague looks a lot of parts of Prague in the old city looks like something you'd see in a Disney movie or in a story book. But when you're going in there's these housing developments that that you can basically hear the Soviet national anthem playing in the background as you drive past them. You go, oh, look at that, just gray depressing concrete boxes. And this became an architectural style and it's a it's a shame they have marred America with this arcus. I mean, the

worst architecture in the history of construction is brutalism. You know, you drive around even the New York area ran right now, I'm sure that's truehere. You are too, you probably you know, if you have a high school, for example, a big high school that was built in the seventies, it looks like someone took a concrete box and drilled a couple of holes in the windows and said, here's your high school. Enjoy.

This is true of a lot of of you know, city sort of city council buildings, and you know, the opposite end of the spectrum, it would be something like the New York State Assembly House, which I believe, at the time it was built was the most expensive building to have ever been built in the United States, which which is garish but but pretty amazing too. Then that's the opposite in the SECD room, where you maybe spend

a little too much money on things looking beautiful. But Trump is trying to take some action on this, and it's just so funny to watch people flip out and say, oh, it's gonna be you know, everything's gonna be Trump Tower. He's not. He's not. You're not gonna be. The White House is not going to be a gleaming glass tower with lots of gold, and that's not going to happen. What this is trying to do is to re establish an esthetic for the federal government to build buildings that

aren't so depressing. I know, you might say a punk who cares whatever, But you know, do you think the White House should look like a concrete bunker? Do you think it's an it's good that the White House looks like the White House? You know what? Do you think

the Capitol building should look like a bomb shelter? Or you know, is there's something, is there's some magic, and then just take that across state governments and local governments, and all these government buildings made really in the sixties and the seventies are the worst. I mean, I think about and even at my college. I think I might have told some of you the story before on air. But in this art appreciation class that I took, which is a pretty decent class, it was really kind of

a history of Western civilization slash art appreciation. It was all right, But to start it out, the guy says that the professor I don't remember his name now, but he says, you know, why does any of this stuff matter? And he's like, well, if you don't have aesthetics, if you don't understand what is aspirational, what is beautiful? What you know, why why people care about about art and about and about architecture and about music and about take

a look at this. And he showed us the current library that we had there, which was it's brutalist modern architecture. It's like you took two concrete boxes and put another concrete box on top of it, and then she sat some slit windows put in. I mean, the thing is, it's ugly, it's depressing. You don't want to go inside. It feels like you're walking into a science experiment where they're going to put electrodes on you. It really does.

And he showed us what before they came before some you know, new board of directors came along and said, well, brutalism and modernism is really what we need on this campus. So let's they tore down a stone, goth thick structure that was it was called Walker Hall. It was absolutely it was beautiful, and he showed us all these photos of it. Tore the whole thing down. And you know, you looked at one build, you looked at the original building, you would have thought to yourself, this is a place.

It looked like something kind of an ad of Harry Potter. You know, this is a place where you'd go to learn wizardry, or this is a place where if you're gonna study chemistry, at least you're not gonna walk inside depressed every day. Now, I don't want to overstate how important, you know, buildings are and all the rest of it, but there is there is something here. And I think it's interestant that Trump, who's accused of being such a such a barbarian, and always he's so uncultured, and I

mean he does order his stakes. Well done, folks. I don't one day I'm gonna talk to him about this, be like sir, what's with? I mean, okay, well done, but with ketchup. Then again, I am an aol I'm an aoli eater, which is just a fancy way of saying I like mayonnaise with oil in it, which is all really ali is. But Trump wants this executive order

to go through. He wants to do this. You know, I think that some of the I'll just tell you, I think that some of the newer museums, I mean, for example, the East wing of the National Gallery of Art is an abomination. It's it's terrible, it's depressing, it's ugly, it's bad. I remember, you know, they they have read, they've redone all a lot of these buildings in recent years, and they make the interiors nice and they don't want to touch the exterior of them. But they really should

go back to classical architecture and federal buildings. I think Trump's right on this one. I know it's not that big of a thing, but you know, modern architecture. I don't know what was wrong with people in the sixties and the seventies in this country and in Europe, but they built the ugliest structures in the world. We should they should all be you know, AOC says for the Green New deal we got, we gotta rebuild every building

in the country. That's crazy. We obviously can't do that, but every brutalist building that we can tear down to the studs and over again, we should, and we should go back to an esthetic that is actually aspirational and elevating and worthwhile. Um I think the building we are in right now, Producer Mark, could be considered brutalist. It is what it is, a big concrete box. What it's actually known. The building we're in is known as one of the best architectural designs ever. What the old it's

the old AT and T Building. That's where we are. Have you seen all the uh the stuff in the lobby? How beautiful lobby is the lobbies nice? Yeah? The outside of the building is a big red maybe not the outside. That's what I'm talking about architecture, not inferiors. Yeah, but it's a very famous building we're in right now. But I know it's famous, but I don't I don't know. I mean, and now you've told everybody where we do the show, by the way, so hopefully the crazy yeah,

because they couldn't just google that. The crazies aren't going to be waiting for us in the lobby. You know. Now I'm gonna have to use the back entrance all the time. There is no dude. This building is a giant red brick box. That's what this building is. There's you want you want a beautiful building, you got to go back to the nineteen twenties. You go to the Chrysler building. You go, you know, that's that's where you actually have architectural aesthetic that's worthwhile. This thing is, this

thing is just functional. The lobby is beautiful. The lot okay, the lot, but that's the part that's architecture that you're talking about interiors. I'm talking about the exterior. I'm talking about the exterior. It's a different as a whole, the whole thing. That's what I mean. They'll redo the end anyway, Bruser. Mark and I have different aesthetics, obviously, but this building I do not think is particularly beautiful. I think the

Chrysler Building art deco, neo classical. That's what we should all go to. And now let's talk about some things that matter all the rest of you. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right, Producer Mark is actually technically correct as I look at the facade of the AT and T building that we're currently and it would classify as art deco, which I do like. But I still think it's a big, ugly red box. Wow. That's right. It's almost a minute. All right,

you won this one. Yeah, where's Clemson? Where's Clemson. I'm just saying he's tastes. He is technically correct about the ugly red box that we are in it is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper from the nineteen thirties. Fine, whatever, I just you know what it is. Because we're here in the hut, I can't appreciate all the exterior beauty hut outside. So we can look at the building there we go. We should have an outdoor freedom hut to then we can check it out. There is plenty of

brutalism down here, though. The ATNT building at thirty three Thomas Street, for example, is an example of brutalis So there are brutalist skyscrapers dotting Lower Manhattan. This happens to not be one of them. Blah blah. Producer Mark was technically correct. All right, Let's move on to something that's more important than Producer Mark being right. For example, let's see, I wanted to talk to you about some of the things that Trump is doing. Oh, we didn't really get

into the prayer breakfast this morning. We didn't really have much of a discussion about that. Here is what the president says, play clip sixteen. Please about this. A lot of people out there that aren't liking what we're doing, and we're pursuing medical breakthroughs to save premature babies. Because

every child is a sacred gift from God. Trump doesn't get enough credit for this, but he is the most outspoken president who has taken the most action on issues of life of any president that I can think of.

He's somebody who when he came into office, I remember we were being told by many, many conservatives, now some of whom have become Democrats because they hate Trump so much, but we were being told that this was all affront, it was a hoax, that Trump was not going to follow through on these issues and he was not going to be a pro life president. Turns out those who were willing to believe, those who are willing to go along with it, were correct that he would be a

pro life president. In fact, you'd be a very effective one and a reliable one. I think that that's important all also someone who is trying to do more for medical research and prescription drugs. I mean, he talked about breakthroughs to say premature babies, and this is an area where you see there's a lot of politics that influences

some of these decisions. Because if you can save as the President highlighted during the State of the Union address, if you can save a I think it was a one pound I think the girl that they that they were cheering for had been I think a one pound premature baby and born at about twenty weeks and she lived there. Now she's a healthy, functioning young girl. Everything's fine. Well, if you are able to leave the mother's womb at twenty weeks, what does science say about whether or not

that's a human being. It is clearly a human being, and in fact it's a human being who's viable, and viability keeps getting pushed further and further back. And this is a threat, very much a threat to the abortion lobby, which will never will never change any of its positions based on science, are based on breakthroughs. They just they have a view of this and it's a view that they will never they'll never switch from, they will never change.

And then also Trump did take a bit of a swipe I think at Edmund Romney, at at Pierre de Lecto, at the Breakfast Play fifteen. I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do I like people who say I pray for you when they know that that's not so. That was a double swipe. Actually you see the one was against mid Romney for being Oh my faith is pushing me to know he's mid Romney voted against Trump and not to go back into this conversation, but mid

Romney voted against Trump because he hates Trump. It's not because God told him too, it's not because the Constitution demanded it of him. It's because he doesn't like Trump and this was the best chance he ever got to just stick a thumb in Trump's eye. But also that Nancy Pelosi says that she prays for Trump. First of all, I don't know. I mean, I can't be I'm not in Nancy Pelosi's mind. Well that would be interesting or her heart. Does she strike me as the kind of

person who prays. Look, there are some some far left Libs who are concert including far left Libs who are who say they're Catholics, who are constantly advocating against church doctrine and policy, who I guess think that they are quite religious, even I mean actively. It's one thing to say, oh, I support the poor and you know these things that are really just virtue signaling dressed up is as religious faith for Libs. But there are other areas. I mean

abortion is the most notable one. There are others actually being in favor of same sex marriage, for example, is against Catholic church teachings, not against all church teachings. And but you know, maybe Pelosi praised, maybe she doesn't. I can tell you this, she doesn't play. She doesn't pray for Trump. That I do not buy at all. I do not think that that's something that anybody believes in this whole process. So, you know, Trump this week has

had a really strong one. I'm glad to see that he's pushing back, punching back, fighting back, and the results really do speak for themselves. But we're still going to need to hear it a lot. We're gonna need to hear it because the media doesn't want to talk about it, and we're going to need to hear it because this president has been able to keep faith with his base in a way that makes him very likely to get reelected, very likely to have people turn out for him, and

even in some ways that are surprising. I mean, he's pushing for research for to say, premature babies. He's pushing for prescription drug prices to go down. I mean, he's taking action in areas that are really effective in helping people, and they're not necessarily things that when he was initially running for office you heard a lot about. He also claims, of course the wall is going to go up in that there'll be hundreds of miles of wall built. We got to see on that one. I think he's trying.

I think he could have tried earlier and harder. But he's certainly telling us that by election day there'll be a lot of a lot of wallop and that's gonna be that's gonna be very, very helpful for his prospects. So and I can tell you this, if Trump wins, he's gonna have to be praying for Nancy Pelosi and all the Democrats because they are they are going to be in absolute freak out mode. They're gonna think the world is ending. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson

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I don't live there yet. Yeah, but you will. Okay, you know You're you're providing all kinds of information and content. Apparently you study architecture and your spare time. I don't even know that's what I do. I don't even know. You know, oh, this building got yet, the building has got awards for design whatever. I know things about the building I work, you know, Yeah, yeah, it technically you see, it was technically correct. All right, let's get to Paul. Oh. No,

did we get to Kyle? No, we did not. Here we go, Kyle buck. The Democrat attitude during the State of the Union tells you everything you need to know. They'd rather see this country tank than see it succeed under Trump's leadership. I don't know how they can't be happy for this country and all the success we've had, but I guess it'd be hard for them to get the votes if their base wasn't always enraged about something.

Democrats pushed doom and gloom to gain power with empty promises and failed policies, and we actually are doing great as a country using the opposite formula. They do whatever they can to destroy those just stand against them. Sorry, I'm reading through this one a little fast. That has a terror has to be a terrible way to live. They all seem miserable. Kyle. Yes, I think you are correct.

Democrats are opposing things that are objectively good and are upset about things that should make them happy, and that is an issue, that is a problem, Paul Buck Nancy Pelosi stated that you can't be acquitted without a trial, and that to be a trial there has to be witnesses and evidence in that trial. Using her logic, if President Trump were to be convicted by the Senate, there could be no conviction since there were no additional evidence

or witnesses. I haven't earned any people discussing this since we all anticipate the present will be acquitted today. Your thoughts, Yeah, I mean, Paul, they keep changing what constitutes a trial, what constitutes a fair hearing, what constitutes due process? So yes, I mean this is the issue along is how can you have voted for how can you have voted for impeachment on the basis of the evidence and witnesses presented and then say the Senate can't rely on that same

body of information to come to its conclusion. How can That's not rational, that's not reasonable, that's not a good faith disagreement, that's dishonest. So I'm with you, Catherine rights Hi Buck Hi, Catherine to keep food super fresh in the freezer. Invest in a food saver. It vacuums all the air out of the freezer bag provided with the product to keep your meat as fresh as the day it was purchased. Stores food in the freezer for as

long as six months. Huh. That sounds kind of cool, actually, yeah, because it's just me. The problem with buying a lot of fresh produce when you're a single guy is that you can't buy for one really, I mean, you're always you know, if I buy blueberries, it's like enough blueberries for five people. When you go to the store and you get a box or whatever, I mean, it's like, you know, you know, I'm might sit there in the whole. It's not that big of a box of blueberries. It's

more you don't need that many blueberries. The one sitting I mean, he'd like you portion it into four or five days. Yeah, But also, do you eat blueberries every day for five days? I mean, sure, blueberry? Are you too? Is this? I don't even like blueberries. What I'm saying you could. What is your favorite fruit, either grapes or apple? What kind of apple? I'm not really picky. See, I'm a Granny Smith. Guy. I like that sour tartness. I love going apple picking out on Long Island. That's fun.

Where's the best place to do that. I think it's a carbis orchard is like nor Shore. Yeah, there's some nice stuff out there. Yeah, I'm for me. It's always a peach when it is proper ripeness is I think the greatest fruit. But if you're talking about just day to day, uh, I go, I go grapes or banana like ba I go grapes or bananas. Yeah, those are those are my favorites. Um oh, we went through cats.

Let's see we got t J. Right. As an Iowan, I'm slightly embarrassed from my Democrat counterparts on behalf of all islands. I'd just like to say, we're sorry, but please don't take the first in the nation primary caucustatus away from us. I promise first of all, that Republicans will not batch it in twenty twenty four, nor did

they batch it last night. Furthermore, it's crazy to think that party, that party can't even plan one state election, thinks that they can plan the lives of every American citizen. Wale TJ. WHI you've opened up for me here. Well, first of all, thank you for speaking speaking out about this from the great state of Iowa. Does anyone ever get on TV or anyone any politician ever say, you know, from the like not so bad state of or from the you know, sort of great state. I guess we

have to pretend that all states are great. Look, some states are better than others. We're conservatives. We live in the real world. Now we can argue about what the realities of what states are better than others. But there are some states that, you know, they're just okay. I feel like, guess somebody who hosts say show that airs probably in every almost every state. No, I know, I'm not telling you which ones I like and don't line. Yeah, I mean, I'm from New York, so I can make

fun of New Jersey. Meanwhile, like half of my friends are from New Jersey, so I can't really you know. I mean, I'm moving there and I still hate it, you know, but like you don't hate it because you're moving there, so you don't hate it. That's home. It's only home because it's so close to him and happen. See, you're just it's the same thing if you're from Texas you have a you have a special dispensation to make as many jokes about Oklahoma as you want. Everyone knows

it's not that you actually hate Oklahoma. I remember a Texans once told me they're building the wall on the wrong border because they want to build it at the northern anyway. But you know, if you're in New Yorker, you're allowed to make fun of New Jersey, if your Jersey allowed to make fun of you. I'm trying to think what the other great state. There was a stark going around somewhere. I don't know if it was an actual pole or something, but it had each state who

they hate the most. Oh really, yes, that would be amazing. New Jersey hated everyone, Well, that is Jersey. But we gotta find we gotta find that, because I'm really curious to see what the There must be some state rivalries and I'm not even particularly probably, you know, not even really, you know, like Nevada and Arizona, or like the Sharks and Jets, and they've just got lots of beef, you know, on whichever side you pick. I don't know, I've never

seen West Side Story. I might actually go the Spring Looks that opened here in New York City did it? Yeah, the Rubay Show. I've never seen the show. I've never seen Greece or West Side Story, Like the movies are either. Wow, I've never seen either of them, so I might might have checked that out. But and I'm sure like right now New Hampshire is like, what's up for month? Bring it? Who's got beef with Iowa? That's what I would want to know. There's got to be some state. I think No, Missouri.

Missouri is probably like, what's up Iowa? Nice caucus he got, there'd be a shame if something happens to it. I don't know. Andrew, Hey Buck, you mentioned the debt a few days ago, and I'm sure you know most Americans probably think we owe all of our debt to China. The fact is only four point one two trillion is held by foreign countries. Then the remaining is debt we owe ourselves. I'm not sneezing at four trillion, but I think a big misconception is that we owe foreign governments

twenty three trillion dollars. Just my thoughts for the day. Shield Side Well, Andrew, though it has to do that's that's true. It is that that foreign countries only own a portion of our debt. China has the biggest one, I think Japan and has a trillion or so. And this is by our debt. What they mean is really treasuries that they've bought US treasuries, which are promises by the US federal government to pay back with interest people

that have bought those treasury bonds. The problem is that when you know debt is you have to give to price into debt the rate at which you're going to pay it back. And so if the debt gets too large eventually, even if the debt is to ourselves, people wonder, well, are we're actually going to be able to pay this?

And then you have this is the problem with the rise of interest rates would be that you have to pay so much back to the debt that is owed to stay on time and not have a default, and American default that debt would be a big deal, very big deal. You end up crowding out other expenditures from the federal government just to pay interest on the debt itself. So it's still a problem. Even you know whoever we owe the money to, it still is an issue for

a major issue for the financial system. Z with conditioning a to Ukraine with that country working to eliminate its corruption. How can PODS ignore a corruption trail leading back to the USA? How could PODUS ignore Biden's quid pro quo? Not acknowledging Biden's act would be a double standard. It could be presented as yet another mess in the previous administration that PODUS needs to address. How is it possible

this administration to not use this argument? What are we saying not exactly because they v because they Oh, well, I think that they didn't do a good enough job.

I will agree with you on this year. I think you're you're suggesting that the administration didn't do a good enough job explaining to people that it was completely legitimate to ask about Biden because there was there was clear evidence of corruption, or there was plenty of reason to believe to investigate for corruption because people don't pay people eighty thousand dollars a month for no reason. All right,

that's is. And remember, folks, federal prosecutors, just to take a step back for a second, federal prosecutors wanted to send former Virginia Governor Bob McDonald's wife to prison. The wife to prison for McDonald accepting gifts from a businessman in Virginia whom he never did a single and they never even alleged he never did a single official act for him, but he hung out with him and accepted gifts from him, and they wanted to send McDonald to

prison and his wife to prison. So when you're a Republican, that's how corruption laws applied. Your wife, who has no official duty or role whatsoever, as all of a sudden go to prison for corruption because some rich business guy like gave her a watch or center on a vacation. Yeah, if you do something, this is where the quid pro quos comes in. Yeah, if you give somebody a fifty thousand dollars rolex and then all of a sudden you

get a government contract, that's corruption. But it's a lot of harder when it's Hey, I really like you, and I gave you a really expensive birthday gift, you know, or I gave an expensive birthday gift to your wife. When you're the governor of Virginia, but you've never done anything for me of any kind, and no one alleges you have, you know, is that Well, that's corruption if you're a Republican. And then you go to prison, your

life is ruined. But if you're a Joe Biden's son, it's hey man, I'm just like on the boot of this company and like you know, I'm just racking out, partying with strippers and you know a little bit of drugs here and there and why not. So yeah, they didn't do a good enough job arguing about that. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast Maureen Rights, Hey Buck, and producer Mark as always,

I love you guys. I listen to watch every day and I find myself missing you terribly on the weekends. As a licensed psychotherapist, I can tell you why there's pricing discrepancies for medical billing stuff. It used to be that a medical professional could bill insurance companies and get reimburse their builled fee. But then managed care aka socialized medicine came along and started cheating practitioners out of their fees.

And about ten or twelve years ago, some exceptionally horrible managed care insurance companies started reimbursing practitioners just a mere twenty five percent of their fee. That's insane. So this became a real survival thing for practitioners. And made them start billing higher than their normal fee just so they could get closer to getting their actual fee reimbursed to them. So the explanation of benefits patients getting the mail will

often show insanely high fees for various services. And while the high numbers freak people out, it's because they don't realize it's a survival ploy just so professionals can get paid a tiny fraction of what is listed on the explanation of benefits in hopes of getting their actual fees

reimburse no more. And I'm actually familiar with this, and I know I know people who have told me about receiving bills for pretty standard treatment where their insurance will get builled a thousand dollars for it, and then they'll end up paying They'll end up paying, you know, some tiny fraction of that. So they bill for a thousand, hoping to get two hundred. But that just goes to show you, I mean, this is not the way that should work. This is not the way this game should happen.

It should be price transparency. You should know what something costs, you should know what the bill will be. Anything else is just nonsense, right. Architecture architecture professor Mark Right. You know what I'm talking about, of course I do. You should get paid for the work that you do. Correct, come with you, Shane buck love the show. I've been a listener for many years now. I've always found your

analysis very accurate and astute. I look forward to each afternoon when your podcast is released to hear your commentary and take on the day's events. Congratulations on the news show on WR. It is well deserved and you will be fabulous. I wanted to get your opinion on school choice. I love the idea, and I've long been a proponent of this idea, even before it became a popular buzzword. At first glance, it seems like a great idea, but

it comes at tremendous costs to the school district. My father served on our school district board for thirteen years, and when a parent wants to send their child to a charter school, the school district is responsible for one hundred percent of the cost. In most cases, this is more than fifty thousand dollars per year per student, and the state and federal government provide little to no funding to help out. I find this to be absurd. I

went to college for far less than this. The parents do not directly see this cost, so they think they can send their child to charter schools for free. What are your thoughts on how to make this a viable program at that price? As at that price it will drive school districts further into debt shields high. Well, let's unpack this to get first of all, Shane, thank you for the kind words. So why is the charter school

so expensive? Is a charter school so expensive per pupil because it's not getting enough funding to start out with? And is that because the public school is getting a huge amount of funding for administrators and costs that are in excess of what is necessary, especially for a school that is presumably failing. So you mean, i'd really have

to look at the books for any endivident. I don't know if this is the case at in a lot of school district or if this is just the case that your dad on this school board dealt with, But I mean, it's all money coming from the taxpayer. So you know, if you're spending fifteen to twenty thousand dollars per student in a public school, why shouldn't that be able to be Why shouldn't that be the expense for a charter school? And if that's not the expense, we'd

have to figure out why. And I bet if you dig deep, you'll find out it's because the public school system is full of graph corruption and waste. But I have to leave it there for right now, my friends, because this show has been amazing, but it's coming to a close until tomorrow when we unite again. Shields Hot